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The Jews of Eastern Europe–Online

Last night, I attended the opening event for an amazing new informational Jewish website, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research’s ...

For Just Such a Crisis

Purim is behind us. The kitchen counter is littered with nosh from lavish Purim baskets. There’s a lingering ringing in ...

Sanhedrin 71

More on the stubborn and rebellious child.

Men’s Head Covering in Synagogue: Reform Judaism’s Views

Changing ideas about whether men should wear a kippah (skullcap) during prayer reflect development and maturation of American Reform attitudes toward tradition.

Not a Historical Record

Earlier this week, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel and discussed whether anything new can be ...

Elizabeth Gertrude Stern

An immigrant's memoir of intergenerational conflict.

The Beginnings of the Territorial Conflict

An overview of Israel's relationship to the Sinai, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, 1948-67.

Zaftigs in Boston Is All About Classic Deli Food and Curvy Jewish Matriarchs

And they are serving up bowl after bowl of Nanny Fanny's chicken soup.

Anzia Yezierska’s “Bread Givers:” A Lens on the Beehive of the Lower East Side

In "Bread Givers," her 1925 novel, Anzia Yezierska explored a world of pushcarts and tenements.

How Summer Camp Became A Jewish Thing

A history of this iconic institution in American Jewish life.

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